Stories of Nikkei Canadians Shyness you’ll find all the gold-medal-winning

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Poignant and insightful

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Stories of Nikkei Canadians Shyness you’ll find all the gold-medal-winningIn this collection of photos and stories, Masako Fukawa brings to vivid voice the lives of Japanese Canadians as they moved from nineteenth century Japan to coastal BC, and then from wartime internment to postwar reconstruction. Following the bombing of Pearl Harbor in 1941, the Canadian government forcibly removed Japanese Canadians from coastal areas to internment camps. Their homes and possessions, fishing boats and farms, were seized and either